Senior Staff Software Engineer

Company Description

Visa is a world leader in digital payments, facilitating more than 215 billion payments transactions between consumers, merchants, financial institutions and government entities across more than 200 countries and territories each year. Our mission is to connect the world through the most innovative, convenient, reliable and secure payments network, enabling individuals, businesses and economies to thrive.

When you join Visa, you join a culture of purpose and belonging – where your growth is priority, your identity is embraced, and the work you do matters. We believe that economies that include everyone everywhere, uplift everyone everywhere. Your work will have a direct impact on billions of people around the world – helping unlock financial access to enable the future of money movement.

Join Visa: A Network Working for Everyone.

Job Description

This position is ideal for an experienced software engineer who is passionate about collaborating with business and technology partners in solving challenging fraud prevention problems. You will be a key driver in the effort to define the shared strategic vision for the Payment Fraud Disruption platform and defining tools and services that safeguard Visa’s payment systems.  

The right candidate will possess strong software engineering background, with demonstrated experience in driving technical design for products and services that have created business value and delivered impact within the payments or payments risk domain or similar industries. 

A successful candidate is a technical leader with the ability to engage in high bandwidth conversations with business and technology partners and be able to think broadly about Visa’s business and drive solutions that will enhance the safety and integrity of Visa’s payment ecosystem. The candidate will help deliver innovative insights to Visa's strategic products and business. This role represents an exciting opportunity to make key contributions to strategic offering for Visa. This candidate needs to have strong academic track record and be able to demonstrate excellent software engineering skills. The candidate will be a self-starter comfortable with ambiguity, with strong attention to detail, and excellent collaboration skills. 

Essential Functions:

• Work with Architecture to translate requirements and deliver solutions that meet the overall vision and technology roadmap for the team
• Mentor multiple teams through the software development process using Agile, Scrum, and Lean practices and work openly and passionately across all functions and geographies to ensure projects are developed and deployed with quality and timely delivery into our production systems.
• Lead component design and technical discussions, and drive innovation and increased developer efficiency
• Collaborate with our client organisation to really understand their challenges and partner with them to solution and develop a payments eco-system that fulfils their aspirations
• Work with partner teams to ensure ownership and accountability of technical project and program planning and delivery for infrastructure build out programs.
• Understands how a project fits into the overall technology roadmap and communicate to the team to help establish consensus and ownership.
• We improve operating procedures and engineering patterns.
• Work with the architecture team on research & analyses of newer technologies for the next generation of Payment Services
• Come up with creative solutions to solve problems

This is a hybrid position. Hybrid employees can alternate time between both remote and office. Employees in hybrid roles are expected to work from the office 2-3 set days a week (determined by leadership/site), with a general guidepost of being in the office 50% or more of the time based on business needs.

Qualifications

Basic Qualifications:
• 10+ years of relevant work experience with a Bachelor’s Degree or at least 7 years of work experience with an Advanced degree (e.g. Masters, MBA, JD, MD) or 4 years of work experience with a PhD, OR 13+ years of relevant work experience.

Preferred Qualifications:
• 12 or more years of work experience with a Bachelor’s Degree or 8-10 years of experience with an Advanced Degree (e.g. Masters, MBA, JD, MD) or 6+ years of work experience with a PhD
• Experience in full stack technology, in one or more of the following technologies- Java, Spring MVC, Spring Boot, React, JavaScript, SQL server, Oracle, Maven, Design Patterns, Test Automation framework
• Proficient in implementing design patterns. Strong understanding of: Java, J2EE, RDBMS, NoSQL DB such as Cassandra, Mongo DB, Spring, Hibernate.
• Experience in developing and deploying components as docker containers is must.
• React